Date: Thursday 24 May 2012
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Charlie Beckett, Pratap Chatterjee, Jean-Phillipe Tremblay

Jean-Phillipe Tremblay's Shadows of Liberty is a documentary feature-film examining the media crisis in the United States. The film takes a harrowing journey through the dark corridors of the American media landscape where massive corporations exercise extraordinary political and economic power.

Artfully mixing interviews, actuality, reconstructions, and archive material, we'll hear insider accounts from a broken media system, where journalists are prevented from pursuing controversial news stories, citizens are censored for speaking out against abuses of government power, and individual lives have been shattered as the arena for public expression has been turned into a private profit zone.

On the opening night of the London International Documentary Festival 2012, this will be the film's world premiere. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the film's director Jean-Phillipe Tremblay, POLIS director Charlie Beckett and Pratap Chatterjee, executive director of CorpWatch, regular Guardian contributor and board member of Amnesty International and the Corporate Europe Observatory.

The LIDF is the UK’s largest documentary festival. Running each year for over a week, it takes place at many venues across London and offers an unprecedented snapshot of the contemporary world as seen through the preoccupations of documentary filmmakers. Alongside established names like Martin Scorsese and Steve Soderberg, the festival also presents the best emerging talent from around the globe.

The films are always both pretext and context for discussion. Always entertaining, moving, and provocative. The LIDF adopts a questioning, critical attitude to the cultural, social and political issues of the day, engaging with filmmakers, their subjects, academics, cultural commentators, and our audience to create a highly distinct public forum for dialogue and interaction.

The LIDF 2012 runs from 24 May to 2 June at various venues. There will be a second LIDF screening at LSE on Monday 28 May, Back to Earth (Retour sur Terre).

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